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August Kitko and the Mechas from Space - Starmetal Symphony, Book 1 by Alex White
Category: No Category | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
In this new wide-screen space opera, humanity has met its match. An alien race of enormous robotic AI have destroyed most of humanity's outposts. But, on the eve of the Earth's destruction, a musician makes one last desperate attempt to reach out and convinces one of humanity's enemies to switch sides. ...Show more
Behind Closed Doors: The Secret Life of London Private Members' Clubs by Seth Alexander Thevoz
Category: History | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
With a keen eye for the juicy anecdote, Thevoz tells the fascinating and entertaining story of the rise, decline and resurgence of London's private members' clubs, from the late-eighteenth century to the present day. In doing so he looks at cultural and political developments beyond the clubs, revealin ...Show more
Broken Ground (Karen Pirie #5) by Val McDermid
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
Number one bestseller and queen of crime Val McDermid returns with her most breathtakingly atmospheric and exhilarating novel yet. 'Somebody has been here before us. And he's still here . . .' When a body is discovered in the remote depths of the Highlands, DCI Karen Pirie finds herself in the right pla ...Show more
Chaise Longue by Baxter Dury
Category: Performing Arts | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
Methods of parenting and education have progressed in recent years, especially compared to some of the more casually experimental routes inflicted on children of artistic professionals in the 70s and 80s. One experience that would take some beating is that endured by Baxter Dury.When punk rock star Ian ...Show more
Chouette by Claire Oshetsky
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FOR FICTION "Claire Oshetsky's novel is a marvel: its language a joy, its imagination dizzying." --Rumaan Alam, New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind An exhilarating, provocative novel of motherhood in extremis Tiny is pregnant. Her hus ...Show more
Funny You Should Ask by Elissa Sussman
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'Delightful banter, hot romance and a love story that's worthy of the big screen' Kate Spencer, author of In a New York MinuteTen years later and she still has butterflies. But does he feel the same way?Then. Twenty-something writer Chani Horowitz is stuck. While her former classmates are nabbing high-p ...Show more
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America by Clint Smith
Category: History | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVOURITE BOOKS OF THE YEARA NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NON-FICTION'A beautifully readable reminder of how much of our urgent, collective history resounds in places all around us that have been hidden in plain sight.' Afua Hirsch, ...Show more
How to Survive Family Holidays by Jack Whitehall; Michael Whitehall (As told to); Hilary Whitehall (As told to)
Category: Travel | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
'Screamingly funny...a splendidly effervescent and enjoyable book' Daily MailOne part Lonely Planet, one part tell-all family memoir, this is the definitive and hilarious guide on how to survive family holidays.No one has more experience of travelling together than the Whitehalls. They've given us a win ...Show more
My Killer Vacation by Tessa Bailey
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
An all-new, spicy murder mystery from Tessa Bailey, New York Times bestselling author of It Happened One Summer . . .It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation in sweet, sunny Cape Cod - just me and my beloved brother - but discovering a corpse in our rental house really throws a wrench into our tanning ...Show more
No Country for Girls: The most original, high-octane thriller of the year by Emma Styles
Category: Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
GOLD. THEFT. MURDER.A ROAD TRIP TO DIE FOR.'It's not exactly how I imagined the week starting. An accessory to murder. On the run in the victim's vehicle . . .'Charlie and Nao are strangers from different sides of the tracks. They should never have met, but one devastating incident binds them together f ...Show more
Out of Bounds (Karen Pirie #4) by Val McDermid
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car and ends up in a coma, a routine DNA test reveals a connection to an unsolved murder from twenty-two years before. Finding the answer to the cold case should be straightforward. But it's as twisted as the DNA helix itself. Meanwhile, Karen Pirie finds herself ...Show more
Past Lying (Karen Pirie Mystery #7) by Val McDermid
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Karen Pirie Ser.
Edinburgh, haunted by the ghosts of its many writers, is also the cold case beat of DCI Karen Pirie. So she shouldn't be surprised when an author's manuscript appears to be a blueprint for an actual crime.Karen can't ignore the plot's chilling similarities to the unsolved case of an Edinburgh University ...Show more